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Jakes Progress

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31. +1000 This is not new news. From reagan to arne

Reply to LWolf (Reply #26)

Tue Jun 4, 2013, 04:08 PM

Jun 2013

they all ignored evidence and experience. They tossed out bullshit and knew it was bullshit when they offered it up to a child-hating public.

Anyone can read Donald Graves. And everyone should have read Berliner and Biddle's "Manufactured Crisis" and the ED Week material of Gerald Bracey and Alfie Kohn's stuff. If people read those (and cared about children) we could have avoided the crap that reagan started and Obama is now pushing.

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